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- CMS announced a hiring surge to add about 1,200 staff, including 100 in its Office of Information Technology, as of May 2026, to reduce contractor reliance.
- Eighty percent of employees use AI tools, saving roughly 11,000 work hours weekly.
- The Fraud Defense Operations Center examined about 300 Medicare providers and recovered about $2 billion in fraudulent payments.
